Top Rights Quotes

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

When it comes to fighting for your rights don't fold hands but turn them into fists.

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of the...

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then thos...

Women are human beings and have a right to control their own bodies. When that is denied, they are not free.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Any human being has a fundamental right to fight for their rights, but that (own right) can not include anything that is fundamentally trying to deny others what is their fundamental right.The root of...

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a...

There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK weekend, and a little first-grader stood up, and he said, 'I can explain segregat...

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the sam...

The rights of one sex, political and otherwise, are the same as those of the other sex, and this equality of rights ought to be fully recognized.

The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers' rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe... and it will be to the benefit of every British citiz...